If you’re familiar with Brass Birmingham, the layout on the central board in Anno 1800 is somewhat akin to how the industry tiles are stacked on your personal playing board before you remove them to place on the central board in Brass. In the center of the play area, there is a common industries board, with a limited number of each type of goods tile stacked in little piles for the taking, as well as shipyard and ship tiles. The trade tokens are a prerequisite for using an opponent’s goods and the exploration tokens are a prerequisite for sailing to other islands. The population cards have a requirement that must be met (depicted on the face of the card typically the production of a good, or the relinquishment of trade or exploration tokens) before they can be played. Each player is also dealt a hand of population cards and a couple of trade and exploration tokens. A specific type of worker must be placed on a goods tile on a player’s personal industry board to produce the good, and it remains there until an action is taken (the festival action) to move all the workers back to their unused (“residential”) area. Each player begins the game with a personal industry board with trade & exploration ships, a shipyard, and industrial goods tiles printed on the board.Ī starting collection of workers (wooden cubes) of various types to produce the goods is also provided to each player. In the board game, players take on the role of industrialists, charged with developing their island economies and exploring other islands. That's why I'm excited to report that Anno 1800 is, in fact, a star performer, and an amazing must-buy board game.Īnno 1800 was adapted by the publisher (Kosmos) from a Ubisoft video game of the same name. Still, I keep trying each new release of his, searching for that next star performer. Over the years, his other games I've tried have been pretty good, but not necessarily amazing must-buys. This is because I absolutely love Brass Birmingham (another MW designed game) in fact Brass Birmingham is my #1 board game of all time. Whenever Martin Wallace designs a new game, I am all over it.
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